Frontline of FEAR
TV & Satellite Week|February 17, 2024
Joanne Froggatt plays an NHS doctor battling the pandemic
SEAN MARLAND, IAN MACEWAN
Frontline of FEAR

NEW DRAMA Breathtaking Monday-Wednesday, 9pm, ITV1 (box set, ITVX)

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the British public was repeatedly assured that the NHS had sufficient personal protective equipment for hospital employees working at the sharp end of the pandemic.

However, as new ITV1 hospital drama Breathtaking reveals, the reality of life on the frontline was very different.

Based on a memoir by Dr Rachel Clarke, the three-parter stars Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt as Abbey Henderson, an NHS consultant witnessing chaotic and heartbreaking scenes as the hospital where she is based fills up with COVID-19 cases.

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